American Sha’Carri Richardson has flown home in lane nine to win the women’s 100m at the world championships in Budapest, denying Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce what would have been a record-equalling sixth world title.
Key points:
Sha’Carri Richardson’s time was the fastest recorded at a world championshipsJamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price’s bronze means she now has more medals than Usain BoltAustralian Matthew Denny set a new national discus record, but just missed out on a medal
Richardson, 23, claimed gold on Monday with a personal best and championship record time of 10.65 seconds, having missed the 2021 Olympics over a positive test for marijuana and failing to qualify for last year’s worlds.
Jamaican Shericka Jackson was second in 10.72 and Fraser-Pryce was third in 10.77.
Fraser-Pryce had been looking to equal the world championships record of the great Ukrainian Sergey Bubka, who won six pole vault world titles.
But the Jamaican’s 15th world championships medal — and first bronze — means she now has one more than her legendary countryman Usain Bolt.
“Usain is in a category by himself. For me it just about showing up and competing,” said Fraser-Pryce.
Richardson was the first American woman to win the 100m world title since Tori Bowie in 2017.
There was more joy for the US squad in the men’s 100m hurdles final as Grant Holloway claimed a third successive world title in 12.96.
Hugues Fabrice Zango from Burkina Faso won triple jump gold with a best of 17.64m.
Meanwhile, Australian Matthew Denny has smashed the decade-long national discus record but it was cold comfort as he again finished just outside the medals.
Denny looked set to claim a spot on the podium with his fourth-round effort of 68.24m, which was 4cm better than Benn Harradine’s Australian mark set back in 2013.
But in the final wash-up, it only proved good enough for fourth spot — the same position Denny recorded in the Tokyo Olympics final.
Big Swede Daniel Stahl claimed gold with a huge final-round effort of 71.46m — the second-biggest throw in the world this year — relegating Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh (70.02m) to the silver medal.
Lithuania’s 20-year-old Mykolas Alekna, whose father won the world title twice, took bronze with 68.85m.
AAP
